Worst Modern Love ever?
“I began to wonder if we hadn’t become scabies ourselves.”
...read moreMore on Kay Hymowitz
So I should probably stop beating this Kay Hymowitz horse to death, but her “successful women have made men TERRIBLE” really stuck in my craw. In her piece, she suggests it’s a big problem that “Not so long ago, the average American man in his 20s had achieved most of the milestones of adulthood: a [...]
...read moreLove & Money
Jessica Grose has a fascinating series up on Slate about marriage and money — how couples manage their money, whether they share, and why they split or merge their bank accounts. Part One lays out the inspiration for the piece: She’s recently married, and she and her husband are figuring out whether to maintain separate [...]
...read moreOn Generosity
This is the third in a series examining issues raised by a blog post from Chamber of Commerce Senior Communications Director Brad Peck, where he suggested that women’s interest in closing the gender pay gap amounted to a “fetish for money,” and the subsequent apologies for it by himself and Chamber COO David Chavern. Part [...]
...read moreThe Motherhood Discounting
This is the second in a series examining a post written by Chamber of Commerce Senior Communications Director Brad Peck, and the subsequent apologies for it by himself and Chamber COO David Chavern. Peck decided to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the recognition of women’s right to vote by writing that the well-documented gender pay [...]
...read moreNew York Expected to Extend Protections to Domestic Workers
This is great news. The bill that New York is considering also protects workers who are undocumented, and requires a series of basic workplace protections: The State Senate this week passed a bill that would require paid holidays, sick days and vacation days for domestic workers, along with overtime wages. It would require 14 days’ [...]
...read moreNew York Domestic Workers Fight to Pass Bill of Rights
Via Equal Writes, the BBC has recently reported on the struggle of domestic workers in New York state to pass a bill of rights for those in their line of work. In this context, the term domestic workers refers to nannies, housekeepers, and caregivers, of which there are over 200,000 in NY alone. Domestic workers [...]
...read morePreach it, Judith Warner
It’s about time someone wrote this: Now, I’m just as jealous of the yoga-pants-at-9-a.m.-on-Monday-morning crowd as the next frazzled working mom. But, I’m sorry to say, however delicious charting the downfall of the wealthy at-home mom may be, we do have to stop for a little reality check. While the rich, bathed in our attention, [...]
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“Bridezilla”? Really?
The right-wing obsession with trashing women never ceases to amaze me. Kathryn Jean Lopez’s write-up of Feministing blogger Jessica Valenti’s wedding is no exception (and of course, Ace of Spades follows up). Lopez titles the piece “You’ve Never Met a Bridezilla Like a Feminist Bridezilla” — the implication being that Jessica is acting like a [...]
...read moreThe washing machine liberated women
So says the Catholic Church. (And what the heck is going on this week with the Church being publicly ridiculous in full force?). The article was printed at the weekend in l’Osservatore Romano, the semi-official Vatican newspaper, to mark international Women’s Day on Sunday. “What in the 20th century did more to liberate Western women?,” [...]
...read moreReconsidering the Black Single Mother Argument
A great essay on what is really at the center of hatred directed toward black single mothers, single mothers in general, and other non-nuclear families, by BlackScientist, especially with arguments like this one threatening to break into the media narrative again: I want to point out that nuclear black families do exist, and have in [...]
...read moreJustifying the world… with science!
Dear Readers: are you interested in joining the ongoing fight against Bad Science? If you are, then like me you’ll be grateful that Amanda has pointed out Scientific American’s takedown of “pop” evolutionary psychology, which is very instructive in how to take apart suspicious-smelling scientific findings.
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